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TIL that common vegetables from the Nightshade family such as tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant actually contain nicotine.

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oRRYW TIL; In 1846, Joesph Leidy was the first person to solve a crime using a microscope. A famer claimed the blood on his clothes was chicken blood. Joseph Leidy showed that it was not chicken blood using a microscope.
4XeKR TIL Henry Ford introduced a $5 min wage. The move made national news as it constituted double the industry norm—and double the pay of most of Ford’s own employees. He also reduced the working day from 9 hours to 8 —becoming one of the first companies in America to adopt the 40-hour work week.
QgQM TIL English muffins aren’t baked.
69oAZ TIL that cars must have at least three-quarters of a tank in order to leave Singapore, in order to stop them from buying cheaper gas in Malaysia and circumventing Singapore's gas tax
4YGa TIL that on April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine, his response was “Well, the people, I would say… There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”